November 02, 2011

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Now that New Hampshire has settled on its primary date of Jan. 10, NBC News and Facebook have settled on a date for their debate: Jan. 8.

Moderated by David Gregory and broadcast on NBC as a special edition of “Meet the Press,” the Sunday debate will take place at the Chubb Theater at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, N.H.

NBC will also host a debate, co-sponsored with the National Journal and St. Petersburg Times and moderated by Brian Williams, on Jan. 23.

ABC News will host its debate on Dec. 10. Moderated by Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos, it will be broadcast in primetime, livestreamed on Yahoo and replayed the next day on “This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, Yahoo News reports.

CBS News will be the first network to host a debate, moderated by Scott Pelley, on Nov. 12 at Wofford College in South Carolina. An hour will be broadcast on CBS News, and the rest will go online to CBSNews, NationalJournal.com and any CBS affiliates that want it. Snippets will later appear on “Face the Nation.”

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